Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Chapter Eight

Posted on November 29, 2010 by stuartelden

Chapter Eight is now done. It needed work in two main areas – expanding and developing the treatment of Luther; and dramatically cutting down the discussion of King Lear. The Lear material might make a journal article in its expanded … Continue reading →

Posted in Giovanni Botero, Jean Bodin, Martin Luther, Michel Foucault, Neil Brenner, Niccolò Machiavelli, Philipp Melanchthon, The Birth of Territory | 1 Comment

‘Radical Foucault’

Posted on November 8, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve just agreed to be one of the keynote speakers at an interesting looking conference coming up at the University of East London on 9 September 2011. I plan to speak about the as-yet-unpublished 70-71 lecture course Leçons sur la volonté de … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s first course

Posted on November 8, 2010 by stuartelden

Well, the first at the Collège de France. Amazon.fr have Foucault’s 1970-71 lecture course listed. It’s entitled Leçons sur la volonté de savoir – the ‘Leçons sur’ bit is presumably to avoid confusion with History of Sexuality volume I, when … Continue reading →

Posted in Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault | 3 Comments

Roundup – Guantánamo, Newcastle lectures, Foucault and space

Posted on November 8, 2010 by stuartelden

This is a bit of an ex-colleagues from Durham roundup. David Campbell has an interesting piece here on Edmund Clark’s Guantánamo exhibition and book. I’d seen some of the photographs themselves in The Guardian – here – but David’s commentary is … Continue reading →

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Books – availability

Posted on November 7, 2010 by stuartelden

Terror and Territory has now been out for a year, and is into its second printing. Despite how the Continuum website portrays my Mapping the Present and Understanding Henri Lefebvre, the books are not out of print, but out of … Continue reading →

Posted in Henri Lefebvre, Mapping the Present, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Publishing, Speaking Against Number, Terror and Territory, Understanding Henri Lefebvre | Leave a comment

Wu Ming 1 on Foucault in Iran

Posted on November 2, 2010 by stuartelden

Find it here. Two excerpts… In October 1978, Michel Foucault (hereafter cited as MF) visited Iran. The country was already shaken by street protests against the Shah. The regime was brutally repressing demonstrations, with the only result of strengthening the … Continue reading →

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Post-Continental Voices out; Hardt on Foucault; Gratton in RPR

Posted on October 29, 2010 by stuartelden

At least, today is the official release date. See the Zero books site here, and Paul Ennis’s announcement here. I’ve yet to see a copy, but I’m hoping one will be waiting for me when I get back to the … Continue reading →

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The purpose of Medieval torture

Posted on October 28, 2010 by stuartelden

Interesting piece in Der Spiegel here (via Medieval News). A German researcher has studied medieval criminal law and found that our image of the sadistic treatment of criminals in the Dark Ages is only partly true. Torture and gruesome executions were … Continue reading →

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The stuff of academic life

Posted on October 27, 2010 by stuartelden

What not to do on your sabbatical – and then how to get it together – here. This cartoon (via Ben on FB) on getting a PhD in the humanities is amusing and disturbing in just about equal measure. Interesting … Continue reading →

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Foucault, Territory, etc.

Posted on October 25, 2010 by stuartelden

Over at Philosophy in a Time of Error, Peter Gratton responds to my update on Chapter One from a couple of days ago. Peter mentions the piece I published on Foucault’s ‘Society Must Be Defended’ back in 2002. That piece, … Continue reading →

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